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Noun Named Entity
Categories: Living people, American agnostics, Finnish emigrants to the United States, American computer programmers, Open source people
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Linus Torvalds  Celeste Amanda Torvalds  David Diamond  Just for Fun  Linus Benedict Torvalds
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Linus Benedict Torvalds is a Finnish software engineer who is the creator and lead developer of the Linux kernel, used by Linux distributions like Debian, Arch and Android. Wikipedia
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Linus Benedict Torvalds is a Finnish software engineer who is the creator and lead developer of the Linux kernel, used by Linux distributions like Debian, Arch and Android. Wikipedia
Creator and lead developer of the Linux kernel Wikipedia Disambiguation
Finnish-American software engineer Wikidata
IS A
homo
ACADEMIC DEGREE
Doctor of Sciences
ARCHIVES AT
Computer History Museum
AWARD RECEIVED
Suuret suomalaiset
BCS Lovelace Medal
IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award
Computer Pioneer Award
Internet Hall of Fame
+5 relations
COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP
United States
Finland
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Obalky knih.cz
EDUCATED AT
University of Helsinki
Svenska normallyceum
EMPLOYER
University of Helsinki
Linux Foundation
ETHNIC GROUP
Swedish-speaking population of Finland
FAMILY NAME
Torvalds
FATHER
Nils Torvalds
FIELD OF WORK
programmer
GIVEN NAME
Linus
Benedict
LANGUAGES SPOKEN, WRITTEN OR SIGNED
English
Finnish
Finland Swedish
MEMBER OF
Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences
NAMED AFTER
Pauling
NATIVE LANGUAGE
Finland Swedish
NOTABLE WORK
Git
Linux
OCCUPATION
engineer
writer
businessperson
programmer
computer scientist
+2 relations
PLACE OF BIRTH
Helsinki
RELATIVE
Ole Torvalds
RELIGION
agnosticism
RESIDENCE
Spain
Portland
SEX OR GENDER
male
SIGNIFICANT EVENT
sabbatical
SPOUSE
Tove Torvalds
WRITING LANGUAGE
English
Wikipedia
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Linus Torvalds
Wikidata
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Linus Torvalds
Wikipedia Redirections
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Celeste Amanda Torvalds, David Diamond (journalist), Just for Fun (book), Linus Benedict Torvalds, Linus Thorvalds, Linus Torvald, Linus torvalds, Linus Torveldts, Linus Tørvalds, Linux founder, Linux Torvald, Linux Torvalds, Linyos Torovoltos, Subsurface (software), Torvalds, Linus, Tove Torvalds
Wikidata Alias
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Linus Benedict Torvalds, LUS, OH3LUS

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